Cultural Program Dedicated to the 30th Anniversary of Ars Longa
The Cultural Program of the Office of the Historian of the City of Havana (OHCH) this June is dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the Ars Longa Early Music Ensemble, founded and directed by Teresa Paz and Aland López.
The ensemble was the first artistic unit of this entity, and on the 21st, it will offer a recital at the Minor Basilica of San Francisco de Asís featuring works full of rhetoric and eroticism, as compiled by composer Claudio Monteverdi in his Scherzi musicali.
Under the title Che si puó fare, a selection of these pieces will be performed alongside instrumental works by Dario Castello, Andrea Falconieri, and others.
The audience will enjoy exceptional sounds within Havana’s musical panorama, with shawms, dulcians, sackbuts and cornett enriching the architectural spaces of the concert hall.
The celebration of this ensemble’s three-decade milestone—a global reference in the art of performing early music composed in colonial America—includes, among other activities, a series of educational presentations with a strong community interest, focused on children and the elderly, in collaboration with the OHCH and other city institutions.
The selected program also includes a didactic concert-workshop for students of the Simón Rodríguez Primary School, academic recitals aimed at students of the Amadeo Roldán, Guillermo Tomás Conservatories, and the National School of Art, specializing in violin, harpsichord, organ, and voice.
Additionally, it will feature the presentation of research and a concert titled Singing and Devotion in the Convents of Colonial America, focusing on religious literature and its interpreters in the conventual spaces of America.
This early music ensemble will perform in various venues within the Historic Center, showcasing the most representative repertoires Ars Longa has interpreted over its three decades.
From Radio Enciclopedia, congratulations to these musicians who have the charm of transporting audiences back centuries with their ancient musical art.
Translated by Luis E. Amador Dominguez
